language trends

[Douglas Taylor]

The top 10 languages spoken at home other than English are:
Spanish 28.1 million
Chinese 2.0 million
French 1.6 million
German 1.4 million
Tagalog 1.2 million
Vietnamese 1.0 million
Italian 1.0 million
Korean .9 million
Russian .7 million
Polish .7 million

-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 7:18 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] language trends


>
>New York Times - 10 October 2003 - p. A19
>
>WHAT'S BEING SPOKEN AT HOME  Nearly one in five Americans say they
>speak a language other than English at home, the Census Bureau
>reported.  Most of those people say they speak Spanish at home,
>followed by Chinese, French and German.

NPR the other day said that the order of languages (other than English)
spoken at home in the US was Spanish, Chinese, Russian. Who is right?

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